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JanitorKarl t1_j57tag8 wrote

Reply to comment by Altruistic-Tower-784 in The Lights Have Been On At a Massachusetts School For Over a Year Because No One Can Turn Them Off by AStartIsBorn

My first thought as well. Where are the circuit breakers? Turn the breakers off.

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Zorro_Returns t1_j589ef7 wrote

Have you ever tried controlling your home's electric devices from a breaker panel? Now imagine some 7,000 individual lights. 1) you don't have as much specific control, 2) it's a pain in the ass to walk over to a panel 3) how do you turn off "this" light, without turning off all the others on the circuit?

Anyway, the article states that they are doing that with some of the breakers, and removing individual lighting elements in some other fixtures.

Just because the article is dumb, read it anyway. People aren't as dumb as you wish they were :)

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redcapmilk t1_j59mslu wrote

Remember when they had to turn the lights back on in Jurassic Park? People get hurt, People die.

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